The Vicarello Goblet

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The Vicarello Goblet

Date
25 BCE–25 CE
Medium
silver
Culture
Italy, Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), Roman, Augustan period
Department
Greek and Roman Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
142647

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This masterpiece of the Roman silversmith’s art is exquisitely worked in relief. The multifigure scene centers on a rustic shrine of the ithyphallic fertility god Priapus, son of Dionysos. He takes the form of a stylized boundary marker atop a column, where a woman seems to have brought him to life by touching him. To the left sits a table with votive offerings to the god. Flanking the shrine are a satyr and maenad, dancing ecstatically. This silver cup was found north of Rome at Vicarello (ancient Aquae Apollinares), probably in 1862.

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Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance
1867 or after-: Sir William Drake, F.S.A. (1817-1890), London, England | By 1912: Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934), Paris, France | 1966: [Auction: Christie's, London, (1966 APR 05), no. 12] | 1966-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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